POLL: How do you eat your corn-on-the-cob?

[Kyna]

The true question is.......How do you butter your corn on the cob?

I use a typical knife with backup options of a fork or spoon (used my finger once). The most ingenious way I've ever seen, but have only done once, was in the movie "Wargames". Mathew Brodrick's father buttered a piece of bread, then wrapped it around the corn on the cob and spun the cob.

That's how my family butters corn unless there is a big gathering, then we have a stick of butter just to roll corn in.

I prefer my corn raw, no butter.

[ducpainter]

I'm a left-to-right typewriter corn eater....sometimes, to be *funny*, I even make the little "ding" noises when moving to the next row.

The true question is.......How do you butter your corn on the cob?

I use a typical knife with backup options of a fork or spoon (used my finger once). The most ingenious way I've ever seen, but have only done once, was in the movie "Wargames". Mathew Brodrick's father buttered a piece of bread, then wrapped it around the corn on the cob and spun the cob.

Edit - Did I just date myself my referencing that movie?   

You put a stick of butter on the plate...

take a warm ear of corn and lay it on the stick and move it around until the stick is gone...

or the next person in line gives you a hip check...

then you add salt...

and enjoy.

[TiNi]

You put a stick of butter on the plate...

take a warm ear of corn and lay it on the stick and move it around until the stick is gone...

or the next person in line gives you a hip check...

then you add salt...

and enjoy.

it's true... that's how it's done in new england... i never saw this buttering method until i moved here 

[ducpainter]

it's true... that's how it's done in new england... i never saw this buttering method until i moved here 

...and everywhere else uses....

ketchup. 

[Buckethead]

Only Nebraskans use ketchup.

As a Kansan, and the only other person I know to try it, I cannot condone the use of tomato product on corn. It ain't natural.

Its not uncommon for Kansas households to have two sticks of butter. One to cook with, and one with a permanent dent in the top from cob-rolling. Its just easier than trying to push that damned pat of butter all over the cob.

[ducpainter]

Only Nebraskans use ketchup.

As a Kansan, and the only other person I know to try it, I cannot condone the use of tomato product on corn. It ain't natural.

Its not uncommon for Kansas households to have two sticks of butter. One to cook with, and one with a permanent dent in the top from cob-rolling. Its just easier than trying to push that damned pat of butter all over the cob.

Tell Emily not to be angry....

but the corn grown in Nebraska...

probably need ketchup.   

[Buckethead]

Agreed.

I worked on a road paving crew for a summer in college.

One of the workers decided it would be a good idea to just grab an ear off a stalk as we were paving past a corn field.

They call it field corn for a reason. That's where it belongs.

Guy made it through 2 bites.

Didn't stop spitting/swearing for the rest of the day.

Some people out there do grow sweet corn, but not very many, and usually for private consumption.

[herm]

corn fed hogs
corn fed beef

corn fed livestock

[Buckethead]

Exactly.

Adds bulk and a bit of marbling to the meat before slaughter, but at the cost of quality.

Grass-fed, a.k.a. free range, tastes better and is better for you.